Children see that their mom spends Saturdays inside cleaning and doing laundry while their dad does outside work such as mowing
they yard and fixing the car. What theory will guide the children's ideas about gender roles? Select one: a. feminist b. evolutionary c. cognitive d. Social learning
The theory that will guide the children’s ideas about gender roles is the social learning theory which is a theory that stipulates that people learn and practice new behaviors from their social interactions, and by watching or observing, and imitating what other people do or practice repeatedly: the male children will develop ideas that tend to imitate their dad, and the female children will develop ideas that tend to imitate their mom.
